‘MUUNA’ IS AN EXPERIMENTAL ‘MATERIALS’ STUDIO LED BY DESIGNER AND ARTIFICER HANNAH CROFT. THROUGH HER PRACTICE HANNAH ALLOWS FOR A METHOD OF CREATION WHICH IS DYNAMIC AND INTUITIVE. A SENSORY AND EXPLORATORY APPROACH TO FABRICATION COMBINES HER TRAINING AS AN EMBROIDERY AND WOVEN TEXTILE DESIGNER AND FUSES CRAFTMANSHIP, ARTISTRY AND INNOVATION; PRESENTING VISIONARY CONCEPTS TRANSLATING ACROSS THE ARTS.
MUUNA PRESENTS ‘ARTIFICILAE// MATTER’ A SPECULATIVE PROJECT WHICH OFFERS A VISION OF MANKINDS COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE ELEMENTS; IN WHICH SCIENCE HAS BEEN HARNESSED IN AN ALCHEMIC FASHION TO SYNTHESISE AMALGAMATED
MATTER, YIELDING NEW DIMENSIONS OF MATERIAL.
CRYSTALS ARE GROWN FROM WOVEN AND EMBROIDERED FABRIC TO CREATE MINERAL SURFACES OF CULTIVATED EMBELLISHMENT.
THREE COLLECTIONS ARE OFFERED; AETHER, IONIC AND OBSIDIAN, CURATING AN ETHEREAL, RAW AND REFINED AESTHETIC.
